Budget Control Act of 2011

— The first known case of Ebola contracted in the United States is giving urgency to moves by lawmakers to boost funding for a response after years of cuts to federal prevention and research budgets. With health officials raising the prospect of more U.S. Ebola cases, members of the House and Senate appropriations committees plan to provide more money for the national response as part of a stopgap measure to fund government operations after Dec. 11, according to a Senate Democratic aide. The aide, who requested anonymity to discuss the plans that haven't been announced, said no decisions had been made on the amount or how the funding would be distributed. Even as the U.S. is...

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